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Thursday
January 22,  2026

CAHSPER Research Seminar with Ryan McDevitt

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

The Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research (CAHSPER) hosts a monthly research seminar during the academic year featuring speakers both internal and external to Washington University in St. Louis. These seminars are open to WashU faculty, staff, students and external collaborators.

Ryan McDevitt, PhD

Quality of Care at Private Equity Providers: Some Past Results & Some Open Questions
Professor of Economics, WashU Olin School of Business
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Ryan C. McDevitt is a professor of economics at WashU’s Olin School of Business and School of Public Health as well as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Ryan previously held academic positions at Kellogg, Booth, Fuqua, and Simon along with non-academic positions at Morgan Stanley and Amazon. McDevitt currently serves as editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and on the American Society of Nephrology’s Excellence in Patient Care committee.

McDevitt was named a “40 Under 40” business school professor by Poets & Quants in 2017 and has won numerous teaching awards for his courses in economics, strategy, and econometrics. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies, and has been funded by the National Science Foundation and National Bureau of Economic Research.